Re: make dist

[Bob Proulx]

Charles Levert wrote:
> I neglected to say that _my_ system is not a
> Debian one, but Fedora Core.  I directed the
> discussion toward Debian because Tony indicated
> that it was what's installed on _his_ system.

Ah...  I was suckered in because you mentioned /etc/alternatives on
your system and we were talking about Debian and away I went!  But of
course Fedora et al use the alternatives system to manage system
programs such as /usr/sbin/sendmail and so of course /etc/alternatives
will exist there.  I knew that but forgot it for a moment.

> My version of Fedora Core just doesn't manage
> automake through the alternatives system.
> Maybe more recent ones do.  I don't know.

I think on Red Hat only a very few system level components are managed
with the alternatives system such as the mta (aka sendmail), java,
printing and xinput.  At least on the system I checked that was the
extent of it.

> Thanks for trying to help on this too, though!

:-)

Bob